Quark's, Saturday

[wouldbenagus]

Quark's had been taken over.

Mona had immediately replaced the bouncers Quark had on guard with appropriately cocktail-laden NPC dabo girls, after checking to make sure they could both reasonably control their new powers. The banner and sign out front had been removed, and the sign above the bar now had accurate information, or as close as Mona could get to accurate, considering how often Quark liked to replace real liquor with the synthesized stuff.

Quark was busy pouting behind the bar, when he wasn't being interrogated by his new self-appointed manager.

"Now," Mona said. "What exactly was in the cocktail that opened that portal?"

"That's a proprietary recipe," Quark said. "I couldn't possibly reveal it to anyone but a trusted friend."

"I will rip your ears off. Slowly."

"It had bloodwine in it, I can tell you that!" Quark gave her a nervous smile, even as he covered his ears protectively. "I don't really remember all the rest. It got very distracting in here very quickly!"

Mona stared at him, clearly unimpressed. "Get out this 'bloodwine', then," she said. "We'll simply have to experiment until we get something right."

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Comments

The bar

[wouldbenagus]

Where Quark was willing to sell you anything, and Mona was probably going to try to recruit you for research.

Re: The bar

[throughaphase]

“I want it known that not all bartenders are obnoxious for cash,” Kitty said on her way in the door.

Granted, she worked with Tino so she could only argue so much.

Re: The bar

[cocktailwarrior]

Mona looked up at her and nodded. "Good."

She was also pleased to see not all bartenders in this world looked like they had an actual ass on their head.

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[throughaphase]

“I’m taking it you’re the competent one from radio?” Kitty said, already glancing up at the sign above the bar to make mental notes.

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[not_of_the_nora]

"Right, alcohol molecules," Aloy said. She was hunched up at the edge of the bar, surrounded by bottles. The little triangle-shaped device over her ear hummed with light. "I got that already, Focus. Thanks."

She let out a sigh and reached for the-- "Tomato juice? Worth a shot."

Re: The bar

[wouldbenagus]

"That's the spirit! You just give your pal Quark a holler when you're ready to try the next thing!"

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[not_of_the_nora]

"You could at least try to sound like you're not trying to sell me a third-rate spear," Aloy said, pouring the tomato juice into her glass, along with the tequila she'd been working with.

She leaned back after she mixed the ingredients, watching the readings scroll by in front of her eyes.

"Interesting. Almost..."

Re: The bar

[onefootoutthedoor]

"Did someone say experimenting with alcohol? Because that is so right up my alley," Peebee announced, sauntering in and over to the bar.

Re: The bar

[wouldbenagus]

"Then you're in the right place!" Quark gave her a smile. He was always pleased to see another non-human. He probably wouldn't even try to extort money out of her too hard. "What can I get you started with?"

Re: The bar

[onefootoutthedoor]

Peebee considered. For all of about two seconds. Then she spread her hands and asked, "What've you got that's completely ridiculous and out there? Something really weird, like a 'nobody would ever use this in a cocktail' ingredient. Let's start with that."

Re: The bar

[thatwaslucky]

Rey felt like she should do something, and while she was good at hitting things, it sounded like this was more than just that. So, here she was.

Feeling a little out of her element.

"Wait, what are we doing again?"

Re: The bar

[cocktailwarrior]

"Trying drinks. Seeing what effect they have on the portal." Mona lined up bottles of the core liquors on the bar. "So people stop being eaten."

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[thatwaslucky]

“Okay. So I’m signing up to drink things,” Rey said. “That’s new. What should I start with?”

This would end well.

Re: The bar

[died8yearsago]

Rosa actually around and working a weekend? Well, sure, if it involved booze, she'd even do it without overtime pay.

"I knew that wormhole was trouble."

She'll be honest, trying to listen to that broadcast had her drifting off a few times, too many words and a lot of them weird, but she felt she picked up the gist of it. And the important parts of it, which, you know, involved apparently more alcohol.

"Fandom Trooper," she said, flashing her badge, because it made her feel all authoritative and cool, even if it didn't have nearly the ring to it that NYPD had. And she just wanted to emphasize the fact that this was part of her job, it was her duty, what a good cop she was. "What do you need to me drink? I mean, do."

Re: The bar

[cocktailwarrior]

"Is that like park police?" Mona asked. Look, she wasn't used to US-based cops referring to themselves as 'troopers'.

She pulled out more bottles of liquor.

"Vodka has physical effects. Rum is elemental, gin is transformative. Tequila tends to be more related to projections, which I'm guessing is the closest we'll get to 'makes holes in reality'."

Re: The bar

[died8yearsago]

"No," Rosa snorted, "it's the island's piss poor excuse for law enforcement."

Yes, she realized that she was included in that now, but she had a pedigree, okay?

"And so that," pointing to the hole then considered the tequila, "is definitely considered a hole in reality..."

Re: The bar

[1000yearstoolate]

Seivarden was here mostly because she was curious about the wormhole. Drinking alcohol was too risky right now, despite the possibility of special powers, and she wasn't stupid enough to try and order tea in this place.

Leaning against the bar, she ordered a fruit juice.

Re: The bar

[wouldbenagus]

Actually, Quark could make a beautiful cup of tea. He had enough finicky, snooty customers back on Deep Space Nine to have multiple teas programmed into his replicator.

"Excellent choice. How about some tulaberry juice? It's very refreshing."

And extremely expensive.

Re: The bar

[what_the_shock]

"So, let me get this straight," Miguel said, wandering up to the bar. "We're trying to save people and the island by drinking?"

Re: The bar

[cocktailwarrior]

"That's the gist."

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[regretiz4suckas]

Kenzi wandered in, looking for the Woman-in-Charge, and announced, "The Moscow Mule I had last night made it so I could jump on a roof to get away from one of those pink slobbery things."

Re: The bar

[cocktailwarrior]

"Good to know," Mona said. "You want another one of those, then?"

The portal

[wouldbenagus]

Which was at least somewhat competently guarded, now.

Re: The portal

[cocktailwarrior]

It may have been better guarded now, but there was only so much a couple of tipsy dabo girls could do. As the sun set on Fandom and across the portal in Chicago, a whole budding delirium of tremens built up, and came streaming out through the portal.

They overwhelmed the dabo girls in a moment, draining them nearly completely before spilling out into the bar.

Mona, with the speed and efficiency of long practice, downed a tequila sunrise and had a force field up to protect the bar in moments. The tremens bounced off of it, howling, and spilled out the door and into the street instead.

"Right," Mona said. "Who wants to go kill some of monsters?"

OOC

[wouldbenagus]

Is it naptime yet?